SR-71 and ?

Hello to all here. This is my first post on ATS and I thought I could get a question answered concerning the below link. The video shows a SR-71
with another aircraft trailing and I have no clue what type it is. Can anyone identify this plane? Thanks

Give that man a cigar. Its not really a SR-71 its a Modified A-12. Its a 2 seater known as an M-21. The only living example of the M-21 can be seen at
the Seattle Museum of Flight.

The D-21 was designed to go places the A-12 could not. However, one of the launches resulted in a collision and the backseater was killed. The D-21
was used operationaly but fired from modified B-52 into China

In an interesting side note, ben Rich talks about a piece of the D-21 being given to him that had been aquired from a defecting KGB agent in the
80's. it was found in Siberia. Apparently the guidence system had gone bad and its was found. The Soviets thought it was part of the US Stealth
fighter

Thats what they did with the russians they leaked ET research like blue book to the Russians who put a much larger amount of research into the field
the the USAF etc. All the While the USAF and CIA developed more and more spy aircraft like the 71, B-1 and 117.

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